martial
\maʁ.sjal\
The verdict
“martial” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,739. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,739
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui dénote une âme belliqueuse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-martial · martial · French
martial · rank #10,739 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,739
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH machin
Nearest frequency peer: machin (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « martial »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- liquides
liquides
89,265 corpus weight
- lise
lise
89,264 corpus weight
- machin
machin
89,263 corpus weight
- martial
martial
89,262 corpus weight
- mater
mater
89,261 corpus weight
- meuble
meuble
89,260 corpus weight
What this shows « martial » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | martial |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \maʁ.sjal\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #10,739 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « martial »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around martial (IPA \maʁ.sjal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #10,739 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for martial, with forms such as "amrtial", "marital", and "marrtial". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "martin", "mortal", "martine", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is martial, spelled M-A-R-T-I-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui dénote une âme belliqueuse.
- 2Relatif au combat, à la guerre.
- 3Relatif au métabolisme du fer dans un organisme.
- 4Qui contient du fer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how martial appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les étranges figures dont tout Mangarévien bigarrait sa peau, jointes à sa longue barbe et sa chevelure flottante, lui donnaient un air martial et terrible, […].
Si j’avais hésité, si je n’avais pas tenu le langage martial que j’ai tenu, si je n’avais pas eu l’attitude belliqueuse que j’ai eue, […], je me serais considéré comme un de ces Français dégénérés, pour lesquels la patrie n’est qu’un mot, dont souvent même ils se raillent.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amrtial
- marital
- marrtial
- martail
- martiall
- martila
- marttial
- matrial
- mmartial
- mratial
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of martial - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "martial", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).